Authorship of the editorial (below) is not credited in the magazine,
but the editorial’s content implies the author is H. Gaylord Wilshire.

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The Story of the Mobbing

The death of President McKinley brought
my lecturing tour to a premature close; last Sunday afternoon I
delivered my last speech from Boston Common.
There were a lot of ridiculous stories
set floating around in the press as to my being mobbed in various
places, including Waterville and Bath, in Maine, Portsmouth, N.
H., and York, Pa. There was a particularly lurid account of my escaping
from lynching by the skin of my teeth in York telegraphed all over
the country, from Maine to California. I don’t like to give away
my press agent, but I must confess that I did not go within 500
miles of York during my whole trip. I had intended once to speak
there Saturday night last, but the meeting had been called off days
before the President was shot, as I found I could not make good
train connections. The Mayor of Portsmouth asked us to postpone
our street meeting there, sending word just before we began. The
meeting was then adjourned to a hall and held without any interruption
or trouble. There was no demonstration on the street or within doors
against me at any place during my whole trip.
At Dayton, Ohio, my meeting on September
1st was stopped under authority of a local ordinance.